LOWER STANCE HIGHER SUCCESS RATE!

Young Tommy wants to learn a more stable shooting stance – cue the editor

The standing stance is the most commonly used shooting position of them all. It’s also the least stable, which doesn’t matter that much if you’re plinking in your garden, but if hunting is your game, you’d be far more effective if you switched to kneeling at every opportunity. Young Tommy is a respectful lad and far too well mannered to dispute such a statement from me, but I could tell that he’d need convincing before he truly accepted the truth of it. My job, this month, is to show him, and as many Airgun World readers as possible, the wisdom of going low to raise hunting efficiency.

DON’T STAND FOR IT

The standing stance is popular, mainly because we’re usually standing when we spot a viable target, and we want to shoot that target as soon as possible before it runs or flies. All perfectly natural – and usually just about the worst way to go about things. What’s needed is a re-think. Let’s take a rabbit as the intended target and examine the process required to put it in the bag.